If you happen to’ve been struggling to beat Chronos, Hades 2’s remaining boss, Tuesday’s patch would possibly offer you a lift. Don’t get me mistaken, Chronos will nonetheless be arduous to tackle, however developer Supergiant Video games made some tweaks that lower the likeliness that the boss will probably be “patently unfair.”
Hades 2’s second patch is fairly massive — it’s received a complete slew of basic adjustments, UI and menu updates, and weapon upgrades alongside adjustments to totally different foes. Supergiant Video games mentioned participant suggestions was used to “encourage” the adjustments introduced forth in Tuesday’s patch. Boon updates, which give gamers elevated talents, will probably be included within the subsequent patch, Supergiant Video games mentioned. The complete patch notes are included on the backside of this submit, however let’s go over a few of the largest ones.
Supergiant Video games will enable gamers to come across another Olympian every evening, similar to in Hades — meaning one extra boon. You’ll even be extra prone to discover one other boon or reward in Erebus. Melinoë’s weapons, Nocturnal Arms and Daedalus Hammer, have been up to date; as an illustration, Nocturnal Arms’ Argent Cranium channels assaults sooner and “hits a bigger space,” in line with the patch notes. The Daedelus Hammer had a ton of upgrades outright faraway from the sport, changed with new stuff. One occasion is the elimination of Double Cataclysm, which has been changed by Mirrored Thrasher, which lets all assaults hit twice (however you’re taking extra injury).
Past Chronos, a number of different bosses have been tweaked, like Infernal Cerbeus, which received assault sample adjustments. The Chaos Trials, that are principally problem runs, additionally had their issue diminished.
Hades 2 Patch 2 Notes
Common Gameplay
- You now can encounter as much as one extra Olympian every evening (as within the earlier sport)
- You now are prone to discover another Boon or different main reward whereas in Erebus
- Elevated invulnerability length after your Demise Defiance results activate
- Improved rewards of Ash and Psyche can now be present in Oceanus and the Rift of Thessaly
- You now can press-and-hold to reap repeatedly from Crescent Decide Outcroppings
- Toula ought to now keep nearer to you in Encounters, particularly within the Fields of Mourning
- Nemesis not presents Demise Defiance objects if you don’t want to refill the impact
- Diminished Gold value of Selene’s Boon when accessible in Charon’s Store
- Minor changes to the order during which Olympians might first seem early on
- Normalized probabilities of discovering Fishing Factors in varied areas
Nocturnal Arms & Talents
- Witch’s Workers: Particular knocks foes away, however is barely slower; Omega Particular is quicker
- Sister Blades: Particular staggers normal foes longer; Assault visible FX higher match the hitbox
- Umbral Flames: Assaults are stronger and sooner; Omega Assault channels sooner and makes use of much less magick; Particular offers a pace increase, however has diminished injury; Omega Particular might be channeled whereas transferring
- Moonstone Axe: reworked Particular supplies a lingering barrier; Omega Assault channels barely sooner; Omega Particular channels sooner
- Argent Cranium: Omega Assault channels sooner and hits a bigger space
Elements of the Nocturnal Arms
- Witch’s Workers (Circe): adjusted activation and length of Serenity impact; Serenity now provides Omega bonus injury that scales with this Side’s rank
- Witch’s Workers (Momus): reworked; every of your Omega Strikes routinely fires a number of occasions in succession from the place you employ them
- Sister Blades (Artemis): you’ll Block once more if the impact recharges when you are channeling; Block now takes precedence over Dodge and related results
- Umbral Flames (Eos): reworked; Omega Assault now fires a gradual shot that sometimes creates injury blasts and in addition copies your Specials
- Moonstone Axe (Melinoë): reworked; now provides Energy and Max Life
- Moonstone Axe (Thanatos): reworked; sooner Assault provides Vital likelihood to Omega strikes
- Argent Cranium (Persephone): you now earn Glory a lot sooner, however solely through the use of your Omega Solid; improved management responsiveness throughout Omega Particular
Keepsakes
- Moon Beam (Selene): elevated bonus to Path of Stars upgrades
Daedalus Hammer Upgrades
- Marauder Wallop (Workers): minimize from sport; changed with…
- Fast Thrasher (Workers): new! All of your Assaults turn into sooner
- Double Wallop (Workers): minimize from sport; changed with…
- Depraved Thrasher (Workers): new! All of your Assaults acquire bonus Energy
- Double Cataclysm (Workers): minimize from sport; changed with…
- Mirrored Thrasher (Workers): new! All of your Assaults hit twice, however you’re taking extra injury
- Fast Moonshot (Workers): additionally impacts Omega Particular
- Twin Moonshot (Workers): additionally impacts Omega Particular; diminished vary; renamed from Double Moonshot
- Shimmering Moonshot (Workers): additionally impacts Omega Particular
- Aetheric Moonburst (Workers): elevated Magick restoration from Energy Pictures
- Concentrated Flurry (Blades): minimize from sport; changed with…
- Melting Dart (Blades): new! Your Particular destroys a big share of a foe’s Armor
- Flick Knives (Blades): new! Your Sprint-Strike additionally fires a number of Particular knives in a fan sample
- Fast Onslaught (Blades): reworked to additionally have an effect on Omega Assault; renamed from Marauder Slice
- Hook Knives (Blades): barely diminished pace of knives returning to you
- Livid Fireplace (Flames): minimize from sport; changed with…
- Mega Spark (Flames): new! All of your Assaults journey farther and deal extra injury
- Inverted Spark (Flames): new! Sprint to make photographs from Assaults reverse course and hit foes once more
- Leaden Spark (Flames): new! Your Assaults knock foes away and have bonus Energy
- Sustained Spark (Flames): additionally will increase transfer pace, as an alternative of decreasing; previously Sustained Fireplace
- Melting Coil (Flames): not fires straight; additionally impacts Omega Particular; previously Melting Comet
- Origin Coil (Flames): additionally impacts Omega Particular
- Fast Slash (Axe): reworked to additionally have an effect on Omega Assault; renamed from Marauder Slash
- Giga Cleaver (Axe): eliminated two-stage channeling (it at all times double-fires however makes use of extra Magick)
- Dashing Heave (Axe): eliminated injury bonus; as an alternative, it now hits twice
- Sidelong Crash (Cranium): minimize from sport; changed with…
- Mega Driver (Cranium): new! Your Specials journey farther and you’re taking much less injury whereas utilizing them
- Colossus Driver (Cranium): additionally impacts Omega Particular
Hexes of Selene
- Wolf Howl: diminished Magick-spend requirement
- Twilight Curse: vastly diminished Magick-spend requirement; diminished foes troubled; diminished solid time
- Night time Bloom: diminished Magick-spend requirement, impact length, bonus injury, and solid time
- Lunar Ray: vastly diminished Magick-spend requirement; diminished injury; diminished solid time
- Moon Water: barely elevated Magick-spend requirement; barely diminished therapeutic
- Darkish Facet: barely elevated Magick-spend requirement
Foes & Encounters
- Chronos: varied fixes and changes; there needs to be fewer instances the place he’s patently unfair
- Infernal Cerberus: minor changes to some assault patterns within the first part
- Eris: grenade assaults not wildly bounce round
- Polyphemus: diminished effectiveness of Mutant Sheep
- Goldwrath: diminished accuracy and monitoring of beam assault
- Queen Lamia: barely elevated Armor; elevated pace; different minor adjustments
- Reed-Stalker: elevated projectile pace and goal distance; diminished rotation pace
- Mourner: barely elevated rotation pace; barely elevated pace whereas attacking
- Lamia: barely elevated life and Elite armor
- Dire Shambler: diminished monitoring pace between assaults
- Hippo: self-destruct space ought to extra intently match the visuals
Stage Design & Environments
- Driftwood assets are extra widespread within the Rift of Thessaly (an extra enhance since final patch)
- Burning Oil Slicks within the Rift of Thessaly will extinguish after Encounters, although could also be reignited
- Adjusted Oil Slicks in some places within the Rift of Thessaly
- Minor fixes to a number of places
Fated Checklist of Minor Prophecies
- Clearing Unique Sins not requires selecting the very uncommon Barren curse from Chaos
Chaos Trials
- Trial of Heartache: diminished issue and adjusted based mostly on Side adjustments
- Trial of Haste: diminished issue and adjusted based mostly on Side adjustments
Oath of the Unseen
- Vow of Forsaking: not helps make sure you rapidly get Duo and Legendary Boons
Menus & UI
- Added many new UI icons for Keepsakes, Weapons, Nicely of Charon choices, and extra
- Perception Into Choices (Cauldron) now additionally helps you to verify every Olympian’s record of choices within the Guide of Shadows whereas selecting their Boons (or the equal with different characters)
- With the prior change, adjusted default key binding for Rarify; some customized bindings have been reset
- Added a warning when you find yourself right down to your final use of Demise Defiance
- Opening the Guide of Shadows ought to present entries for close by characters extra reliably
- Eliminated the Unused Grasp notification when exiting the Altar of Ashes whereas at a excessive Grasp restrict
- Up to date Pitch-Black Stone display screen to make use of Side-specific icons
- Adjusted enter motion bar format on the backside of the Boon Display and related
- Added borders to icons for Selene Hexes on the Items of the Moon display screen
- Added informational pop-up when utilizing F10 to report bugs
- Different minor adjustments
Artwork & Visible FX
- Diminished some full-screen flashing or strobing, similar to from time-slow results
Music & SFX
- Added SFX for when sure energetic talents similar to Serenity are prepared to make use of
- Up to date placeholder SFX for varied Keepsakes
- Up to date SFX for projectile collisions with Umbral Flames (Moros)
Voice & Narrative
- Distinctive voice traces ought to play extra reliably when sure incantations are revealed within the Cauldron
- Added voice traces when utilizing Part Shift (Selene) vs. Chronos (or making an attempt to…)
- Extra voice traces ought to play when confiding in Frinos in sure contexts
Miscellaneous
- Whereas brooding over the household portrait within the Crossroads, you might now snap out of it sooner
- You now can totally management the sport utilizing keyboard provided that you rebind Assault and Particular
- All timers now pause whereas within the presence of Charon
- An Anvil of Fates will not be supplied in Tartarus when you have not discovered a Daedalus Hammer
- Within the Hades Flashback, adjusted timing of trace for gamers who don’t notice they’re in management
- Diminished necessities for the incantation Energy to Pause and Mirror to be revealed
- Melinoë now respawns within the middle of her magick circle close to her tent (she was a bit off earlier than…)
- Improved compatibility with extra kinds of controllers
- Up to date textual content for varied upgrades and talents
Bug Fixes
- Fastened Double Up (Poseidon) generally doubling Thriller Boons; clarified description
- Fastened Nightmare assets dropping unexpectedly in Chaos Trials
- Fastened Omega strikes sometimes changing into unresponsive after being chomped on by Polyphemus
- Fastened deadliest assault of Chronos sometimes hitting when Melinoë was in a supposedly protected level
- Fastened Umbral Flames Assault stopping Magick regeneration earlier than channeling Omega Assault
- Fastened The Queen and Judgment (Arcana) showing energetic whereas no others Arcana are energetic
- Fastened Fireside Acquire (Hestia) not restoring Magick if chosen as a Sacrifice Boon
- Fastened sure later Oath Testaments for the Sister Blades generally not showing as anticipated
- Fastened instances the place you can exit of bounds utilizing the Argent Cranium within the battle vs. Chronos
- Fastened extra instances of some visible results vs. Chronos lingering between phases or after the combat
- Fastened Toula unceremoniously vanishing after you vanquish Chronos
- Fastened extra points with Solar Worshiper (Apollo)
- Fastened extra points with Darkish Facet (Selene)
- Fastened extra points with Twilight Curse (Selene)
- Fastened a visible problem the place Headmistress Hecate may seem to slip after snared by your Solid
- Fastened Spark of Ixion (Charon) inflicting a Chaos Gate to look in Asphodel?
- Fastened Golden Boughs generally not marking all accessible rewards within the Fields of Mourning
- Fastened a number of narrative occasions that might play out of sequence
- Fastened Odysseus fairly rudely strolling away whereas in dialog with Nemesis
- Fastened Heracles generally leaping away ceaselessly
- Fastened Melinoë’s voice reverting throughout her return sequence regardless of sure Circe enchantments
- Fastened incorrect Echo portrait within the Guide of Shadows
- Fastened incorrect music taking part in in some Chaos Trials, or not taking part in as supposed in some situations
- Fastened uncommon instances of a looping sound taking part in indefinitely
- Fastened a uncommon occasion when targets within the Coaching Grounds may overlap
- Fastened a number of minor points on the Victory Display that reveals whenever you prevail
- Fastened extra miscellaneous points when taking part in in ultrawide resolutions
- Fastened a uncommon crash during which the impact of Winter Harvest (Demeter) may repeat ceaselessly
- Fastened varied different uncommon crashes
- Fastened a number of textual content errors
- Different minor fixes